授業科目名 年度 学期 開講曜日・時限 学部・研究科 全担当教員 単位数
50604:[2025 春セメスター]Multi-level Governance Ⅱ(P) 2025 春セメスター 金4 政策科学部 上久保 誠人 2

キャンパス

OIC

授業施設

AS465セミナールーム

授業で利用する言語

英語

授業の概要と方法

This Course deals with sevaral policy areas and their policy-making processes. Firstly, the students will grasp basic knowledge of the specific issues of policy science:①fiscal policy and taxation;②welfare policy;③social security and old age society;④women's participation in society;⑤industrial policy;⑥ economic policy and monetary policy; ⑦enviroumental policy; ⑧free trade; ⑨energy policy; ⑩local administration; ⑪ education policy; ⑫imigration; ⑬ IT policy and space policy.

Secondly, in order to understand "reality" of policy and policy-making process,the students will focus on actors' behaviours and intractions, institutions, and obstacles of policy implementation.

In this course, Japanese case will be basically used as a case study. However, the students will be expected to introduce cases of their home countries. In this course, it will be beneficial to discuss similarities between Japan and other countries.

Each class will be conducted as follows:
1. Preparation:
The Instructor will uploads a video of lectures on OneDrive (approximately 30 minutes). Students should watch it and read journal or books on the reading list (Reading list will be passed to the students in the introductory session in the first week).

2. In the classroom, student will do groupwork to discuss the question related to the lecture and make five minutes presentation. The instructor will give comments to the presentations.

受講生の到達目標

To get a comprehensive understanding of sevaral policies and thier political process.

事前に履修しておくことが望まれる科目

None

授業スケジュール

授業回数/
担当教員(複数担当の場合)
テーマ
キーワード・文献・補足事項等

Introduction of course layout

Overview

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1

Fiscal Policy and Taxation

Budget deficit, consumption tax, fiscal investment and loan programme (FILP)

2

Welfare Policy

3 types of welfare states

3

Women's participation in society

International comparison of women's participation in politics and business

4

Industrial Policy

"Developmental state model", administrative guidance and Japan's high economic growth

5

Economic Policy and Monetary Policy

Keynsian policy, yen's depreciation policy and export industry, monetary easing policy

6

Environmental Policy

International and domestic politics of greenhouse effect gas issue, air pollution, water pollution, and recycling industrial wastes

7

Free Trade

Competion between countries over WTO, FTA, TPP, and protectionism

8

Energy Policy

International and domestic politics of oil, natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy

9

Local Administration and Decentralisation

Local government finance, local tax allocation methods, subsidies from central to local governments, shifting of tax revenues from the national to the regional level

10

Education Policy

Internationalisation of higher education in the world, competition between "conservative" and "liberal" over education

11

Imigration

Politics between imigration and nationalism, foreign labour issue

12

Good and Bad Aspects of Neoliberal policies

Administrative reform, deregulation, Widening gap between rich and poor

13

Public Administration for New Policy Issues

Policy-making and implementation of IT policy, artificial intelligence, and space policy .

14

Concluding session

Comprehensive understanding of public administration

授業実施形態

● classes on Face to Face basis,
● up to six sessions may be switched to Media basis (either live-streamed classes or on-demand classes).

授業外学習の指示

Please read the articles in newspapers and journals related to political process.

成績評価方法

種別 割合(%) 評価基準等
定期試験(筆記) 0

レポート試験
(統一締切日を締切とするレポート)
0

上記以外の試験・レポート、平常点評価
(日常的な授業における取組状況の評価)
100

Attendance, report and performance in class

成績評価方法(備考)

None

受講および研究に関するアドバイス

教科書

教科書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考書

参考書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考になるwwwページ

授業内外における学生・教員間のコミュニケーションの方法

manaba+R,学生との直接対話

備考

英語基準学生以外の受講条件:TOEFL530(PBT)またはTOEIC660以上
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